Whatever happened to the rate of interest?
byAccording to the French historian Fernand Braudel, to understand the present we should master the whole of world history. The same may be said…
Honest Money
Madness!
by“Central bankers control the price of money and therefore indirectly influence every market in the world. Given this immense power, the ideal central banker…
‘The system has spun out of control’
byBook Review: The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System by James Rickards The title will no doubt give Cobden…
Bitcoin entrepreneurs meet in Paris this week
byI’m open-minded about Bitcoin and digital currencies in general. Which is to say I want 10 million people to use it for 10 years…
ECB embraces QE faulty logic
byEditor’s note: this article, under the title “No end to central bank meddling as ECB embraces ‘quantitative easing’, faulty logic” appears on Detlev Schlichter’s…
Amazon Prime cheaper in commodity terms
byIncoming from Dave Doctor at Monetary Choice: The dollar price of Amazon Prime, the two-day delivery program for Amazon, rises on April 17th to $99,…
The injustice of easy money is going mainstream
byThe Daily Mail reports Interest rates: How keeping them at a record low is a deliberate government ploy to pay off its debts: A stealth…
2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months: A proposal for sound money
byIn light of recent events, we’re bringing forward this proposal from June 2010. There’s two ways to view the financial meltdown that occurred in…
ConservativeHome: It’s time for currency choice – and Douglas Carswell’s 10 minute rule Bill on currency reform
byOver at ConservativeHome, I have promoted Douglas Carswell’s ten minute rule Bill on legal tender laws and currency choice: People today have unprecedented choice. They…
Phases of the crisis – are we approaching the endgame?
byPhase 1: Greenspan, the arch money crank The Greenspan “put”, and the collective adoption by most central bankers of low interest rates after the…